Billiard-cloth.



Patented January 17, 1905.

PATmvir i iich,

VINCENT B. HUBBELIJ, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BlLLlAFlD-CILQTHu SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 780,185, dated January 17, 1905 Application filed August 17, 1904. Serial No. 221,043.

T0 at whom/ it TIMLZ/ concern:

Be it known that I, VINCENT B. HUBBELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, borough of Manhattan, county and State of New York, have made a new and useful Invention in Billiard-Cloth, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has for its object the adop tion of a cloth which shall he possessed of material advantages over existing types of billiard-cloths; and to this end it consists in utilizing a fabric having a top or wearing surface with a very fine nap, preferably silk, and an under or table surface of different material, preferably cotton. I have discovered that in the use of well-known types of billiard-cloths, which are ordinarily made of very high-grade woolen fabric, the nap of the goods is sufficiently stiff to offer to billiardballs material resistance when rolling against the ends of the same and but very little resistance thereto when rolling in a reverse direction. In other words, the nap of existing types of woolen billiard-cloths all trends in a definite direction, so that much more resist' ance is offered to the movement of accuratelyturned ivory balls when they roll against the ends of such nap than when rolling in the direction of the trend thereof. Cloths of this nature, therefore, do not possess the desired smoothness or evenness of surface when stretched upon a table as does cloth having a top or wearing surface with a very fine nap like silk and an under or table surface of different material like cotton. I am aware that such fabrics have heretofore been utilized in other arts-as, for instance, in upholstery or tables whereby the highly-beneficial result above referred to is obtained.

Although I have described a fabric having a top or wearing surface with a very fine nap, preferably silk, and an under or table surface of different material, preferably cotton, I do not limit my invention to this specific struetural cloth, as the generic essence of my invention lies in providing a billiard-cloth having an upper or wearing surface of the finest possible nap, silk being the finest known to me, and an under or table surface of a material having the necessary strength to give body to the cloth and admit of great tensile strain in stretching it in place on the table, cotton being the best known to me.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-- 1. A billiard-cloth having a top or wearing surface with a very fine nap and an under or table surface of different material, substantially as described.

2. A billiard-cloth having a silk wearingsurface and an under or table surface of different textile material, substantially as de scribed.

3. A billiard-cloth having a top or wearing surface with a very fine nap and an under or table surface of cotton, substantially as described.

4. A billiard-cloth having a wearing-surface of silk and an under surface of cotton, substantially described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

VINCENT B. HUBBELL.

Witnesses:

C. J. KINTNER, M. F. Keivrine. 

